The Skinny

Weight/Fitness vs Health Humans tend to go with their first impressions upon seeing the size of a person. That overweight person at the store must be unhealthy and that skinny person is assumed to be healthy; it’s what society has told us so it has to be true. Reality check! It is possible to be overweight and fit as possible as it is to be skinny and unfit, but which one is worse? Research indicates that people who are overweight and fit are just as healthy as a healthy average weight person,…

Many women and girls suffer from mental illnesses and eating disorders, due to the rise in the standards of what women should look like. These illnesses and disorders have cause many deaths because of the pressures society puts on women to be skinny, beautiful and “perfect.” Anxiety is the number one most diagnosed mental illness and affects up to 18% of the US population. Many people go undiagnosed for this problem and silently suffer when the help they could be getting could help them.…

He cannot help but think that Agent Scuzzy has something to do with this.... She and her flying liquid discharges.... The naughty smile on Agent Scuzzy's face is proof enough for the Assistant Director. She winks at him, a come-hither look, as an exclamation point to confirm his suspicions. Agent Scuzzy has no shame. The room is semi-dark—the blinds drawn tight except for slivers of light that peeps through. A dancing hula girl sways to and fro on top of the disorder splayed out in disarray…

In the article, “This I Believe” Eboo Patel writes a short story about what happened in his life. He tries to convince others to take action when their friends or someone faces problems. While Patel and his Jewish friend are in school, strangers are humiliating Patel’s friend in front of everybody. But Patel did nothing to comfort his friend nor confront strangers. It is sad that what happen to Patel’s Jewish friend and probably he will think his friends are not reliable when trouble comes…

Novels and poetry. Both seem very different from one another. One is long, one is short. Novels have plot and poems have feelings. Though some may disagree with those statements, it is easy to tell key differences. Oftentimes poems have more figurative language and are more focused on either very broad or very specific topics in life. Sandra Cisneros is one person who can write a novel using stereotypically poetic themes. Using both her novel The House on Mango Street and her poem, “Night…

television or in the magazines, they want to be the same way, which is not necessarily a bad thing. This is because such images make young people want to take care of their body, and make themselves look young and glamorous. If a young girl does want to be skinny and have beautiful shiny hair, then this doesn 't mean that her diet would be unhealthy and she would turn out to be a bulimic. This could also mean that she would take care of herself, by taking the necessary vitamins and not eating…

instance, There is something on the internet called “fitspiration” or “fitspo” which is described as a “genre of online photographs expressly intended to inspire people to work out harder.” (Schreiber, Body Conscious.) These photographs show perfectly skinny bodies and often have some kind of inspirational quote. It may seem like a great idea, but many women feel otherwise. “I would look at the accounts of women posting their perfect…

influx of media constantly it’s easy to be swayed mentally into believing everything in the media. While some believe that skinny people are healthy and happy, all body types should be celebrated because of the need for high self-esteem and to counter the damaging effects of images in the media. Children are strongly influenced by the media and how they promote that skinny is perfection. Children have very influential, moldable and naive minds(“The Effects of Media On children”1). They will…

with one 's self-esteem and body image. Body image has a large impact on women, especially thought who are particularly sensitive about weight and thinness. Many people consider skinniness to be a mark of beauty, however, women who are not considered skinny often fall under the category of unattractive. Women who are not necessarily thin feel self-conscious because they do not fall into society’s typical archetype of a beautiful, thin woman, a stereotype that is based on media and pop culture.…

The short story “Disappearing”, written by Monica Wood, is about an overweight woman who falls into an addiction. Nowadays, society has been changing a lot and specially in the way people should look in the exterior. As we can see in T.V., movies or magazines models are now with perfect bodies. But people should as themselves whenever they see this, “what is really a perfect body?”. The perfect is how you feel and whatever makes you feel comfortable. There will always be people that puts you…